Thematic Bible: Carried into bondage
Thematic Bible
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Carried into bondage
During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.
So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!"
how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
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- 100 Years And More
- Abuse Of Authority, Examples Of
- Beggars
- Captivity, Of Israel
- Cries Of Distress To God
- Crying To God
- Death Of Office Holders
- Doing One's Work
- Forced Labour
- God, Human Descriptions Of
- Groups Of Slaves
- Growing Up
- Hating Peoples
- Making Slaves